How many different countries have you visited?

4..if we aren't counting America..Even counting it doesn't bump me up to the next level. Boo.

Thirteen, if I haven't missed any in my count.

I have no desire, to visit any other country, with the exception of Canada, Europe, Australia, the Holy Land. I stepped over the border into Mexico with my mother once, and had no desire to stay for more than an hour,

Just to Canada

Only one. I'd love to travel, but haven't really had the chance yet. (So far, I've only been to Vegas. Not a bad place to start, but certainly not the only place I ever want to visit).

Six.

Just the one - I went to India for a fortnight in 2005. Other than that, I have remained in the UK, and I haven't even visited Northern Ireland.

You do know that Europe isn't a country, right?

18, I think.

Besides my own USA - Mexico and Canada.

Canada, Aruba, Bahamas, Indonesia (Bali), Hong Kong, UK, France, Germany, Egypt .. so 9?

Excluding Hong Kong, I believe the total is 17. But I probably have left something out.

I forgot United Arab Emirates and Greece, probably more---so I'm up to 19 at least.

Ireland, Sweden, Greece, Spain, Portugal.

I meant the countries in Europe.

Six if the country I live in at the moment is the UK. Eight if the country I live in at the moment is England.

My northern neighbors and my southern neighbors. But not too far from the border, I wanted to be close just in case.

14 different countries, all over europe and the united. Well 15 if you include KL airport

Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, Panama, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland. Latvia, Estonia, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, Japan, China, Singapore, Thailand = 30 if I didn't forget any.

Canada (which really doesn't count.. I mean get real Canada a country??), Mexico, Italy, Turkey. Of course I could add in Washington D.C. and Kalifornia, those two countries are really strange.... In Kalifornia there are mostly fruits, nuts, and flakes. In D.C. a bunch of people out of touch with reality and have no clue about America and the world...

Greece and Spain. Just the two.

And, technically, Wales counts.

Tokyo, Japan. when I was 4yrs old til I was 7. Dad was in the Air Force, so went went. It was great.Just wish I was a little older so I could of soaked more in.

It's a complicated count, because some of those countries have split up in the meantime, but my current count is at 21.

Puerto Rico (lived there for three years), Italy, Spain and Turkey. Probably shouldn't really count Turkey though. All I saw of Turkey was some dun-colored hills from the harbor, reminding me of parts of Southern California. At the time I was there, Turkey had invaded Cyprus, the US had slapped an arms embargo on Turkey and Turkey had responded by inviting the US diplomatic corps to leave their country. I was there on the JFK (CV-A 67), as part of a task force guarding the evacuation of US civilian personnel from Turkey. Needless to say, we didn't get any liberty while there.

If you are counting my county of origin and HK separate from China because different passport stamp, 10 total.

3

You do realize I hope that Mexico is nearly as varied in geography and culture as the US is.

I saw the town of Nogales, Mexicao, and what I saw was a begging child in the street, a black robed woman that kept pointing at me, while I was in the car (I was 20 years old), scared me. The city looked unkempt. I think it would be unsafe for an American to go to Mexico, especially in todays environment.

I think there are places in New Mexico which look no different.

Perhaps you are unaware that Mexico is a very common place for Amerians to retire to, where their retirement savings can go much further. I doubt the quantities exceed the quantities of those coming in, but it would be interesting to find out.

The baby boomers are just about to retire, which means there may be a small U.S. within Mexico.

Unless you would also like to prevent emmigration as well as immigration, this may have a huge impact over the next decade or two on how similar our countries become.

Unless one gets caught up in the equatorial rain forest wars near guatemala, or in the revolutionary independence fights (for community self-rule) in the south-west, the only thing an American really has to fear in Mexico is getting arrested, where bribes and guilty till proven innocent pervade. I'm pretty sure you encountered a brujita or sorceress, pretty rare, even then (though Nogales was the most likely place to encounter one). ..quite a thing to have leave an impression, and possibly the source of much of your life to follow.

Unkempt is part of much mexican culture, but's it's also the product of non-urban alaskan or hillbilly culture too.
Unkempt usually goes hand in hand with poverty. You can't blame residents of Nogales any more than you can blame our alaskans/hillbillies. They have to hold on to broken appliances in the front yard until no further purposes are possible, and they don't time or money for decorating.

Mexico is safer today than decades past. Why do you keep thinking the world has become a more dangerous place, when the truth is closer to it have becoming a similar shopping mall everywhere? Even if your biblical interpretation paranoia were true, there's nothing from Genesis to Revelations to suggest that America would be safer for anyone than Mexico.

When you were a young adult, the world was in turmail, with all the colonies breaking free from Europe and U.S. control, and Arab and Israeli nations forming. Those days are long gone though. African tribal wars over famine, and wars caused by US aggression or Israel are the only real significant world unrest problems remaining.

Unless you're becming paranoid in your old age, I think the real issue is that you were entirely oblivious of the world when younger, and relatively oblivious today, such that your fears are based on imagination.

Your big concern when younger was the USSR, and that was the result of propoganda. USSR text books were full of pictures of US factory towns with pollution so bad you could hardly see and our ghettos (things that did exist here at times). Both sides colored the facts to keep their own citizens happy with what they had, and you bought it. The magazines you grew up on in the 50's, like National Geographic were practically written by the defense industry, so of course you believe in national defense. Unfortunately it's no different today. The armed services still produces some of our pop-songs and tv show content, for recruitment encouragement. The world is full of brainwashing, but as far as I've identified thus far, all of it is purely economically motivated, and not the result of some secret world social order agenda. Perhaps the worst of it is the drug industry, including illicit drugs, but it's still just economically motivated.